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| Maxeiner |
Last week the American Society of Comparative Law (
ASCL) met at the
University of Missouri Law School. I was privileged to participate among 120 scholars from 20 countries.
As part of the works-in-progress program at the front end of the conference, I presented the most recent iteration of my work on access to information law, comparing private-sector transparency and accountability measures in South Africa with selected standards in Europe.
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"failures" in Amercian
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| Yoo |
I benefited from exchange of critique from a room full of participants, including co-panelists
James Maxeiner of the University of Baltimore and
Kwanghyuk (David) Yoo of the University of Iowa. Maxeiner presented a fascinating comparative study of lawmaking in Germany and the United States, showing the inventive ways that lobbying-driven American lawmakers might learn from Germany's variegated means of incubating potential legislation. Yoo talked about U.S. and European Union court decisions on antitrust challenges to patent settlements in the pharmaceutical industry: when a company settles a lawsuit to keep a patent challenger out of the market, when does dispute resolution cross into anti-competitive misconduct?
The panel was moderated by Missouri’s
Mekonnen Ayano, a Harvard doctoral graduate and formerly an Ethiopian judge and World Bank legal counsel. University of Missouri Dean
Lyrissa Lidsky, an accomplished media law scholar, attended and
live-tweeted the panel.
[UPDATE: Vainly adding photos with me in them, courtesy of Mizzou Law.]
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| Prof. Maxeiner and I listen in the lecture hall. |
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| I puzzle over dinner options. |
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| I ramble about ATI in Africa with the generous ear of moderator Prof. Ayano. |
